Hira stands like that for a minute before separating herself from Jacob. "Let's go back now. Time for some reason passes differently here than it does in the village so starting back now is a good idea."

Hira suddenly stops and presses her hand against Jacob's chest, narrowing her eyes and sniffing the air. "There's something here... something... not Grimm." She grabs Convergence and spins it, extending the staff and blade as a flash of white blurrs across the path.

Jacob had Jernulv in his hands in a split second, gripping the haft with both hands and extending the weapon ahead of him. "Do you know what it is?" he growled, staring at the space before him, his pupils shrinking into pinpricks as his instincts kicked in.

Taking a glance left and then a glance right Hira watches for the white something. "I'm not sure but it smells human from what I can tell." She mutters._________Kokkino watched the two discussing from high up in a tree, her visible blue eye gleaming with interest. I wonder if I can actually talk to them.

Jacob sniffed the air a few times, his rancor rising"Come out and fight me you COWARD!" Jacob bellowed. He adjusted his grip on his axe, preparing to take the first blow that he knew was an inevitability.

Kokkino frowns under her bandages as she hears that. I'm... a coward? That's a new one. She thinks to herself as she steps off the branch, landing in the middle of the path with a light thud. The twin blades hooked onto her back bandages gleam in the dim light, the red blades visible. _______________Hira braces the quandao when the figure wrapped in bandages with white hair drops down in front of them, it's back turned.

Kokkino looks over her shoulder towards the wolf Faunas. "I am Kokkino Thanatou. And who might be you, warrior?" She asks, the mechanical voice grinding on the air. _____Hira wrinkles her nose at the mechanical voice, peering around Jacob's side.

Turning on a heel, Kokkino moves, suddenly standing in front of Jacob in the blink of an eye. "What are you and the dragon doing out here? Are you also on a mission?" She inquires, not noticing how close she's standing.

The blademaster blinks for a moment before taking a few steps back. "I... see. I suppose I should explain my presence then. I was sent by Ozpin of Beacon to deliver a message to the one named Hira and you actually. He said you need to return tommorow." She says before launching herself up into the branches. "I'll be taking my leave then." She says, the volume on the voicebox greatly reduced.____________Hira processes this for a moment. "If we're needed back tomorrow then I'll need to clean off the Hammerhawk." She mutters.

Hira quickly pulls out her scrolls and sorts through some entries. "Kokkino Thanatou, the Whirlwind of Blades. She's a mobility specialist. Let's get back, we'll need the rest if we're going back tomorrow."

A low whoosh pierces the air as a knife flies out of nowhere and sticks into a tree roughly ten feet up the path, a note attached to it. Hira walks up to it and dislodges the knife, opening the note as she does so. "Ah." She keeps walking, eventually getting to where she stepped onto the path. She unfolds her armor and steps into the snow once more.